Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (2024)

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (1)

When you can’t sleep, a 24-hour pharmacy will be open and stocked with all your 3am needs, from food to meds

Friday October 7 2016

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Written by Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner

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In a city that’s known for never sleeping, it’s easy to find a 24-hour pharmacy. Sometimes you just need to get up in the night to buy some Band-Aids, fill a ‘script or buy midnight snacks. (No judgment.) For when the best 24-hour restaurants and even the best 24-hour pizza spots aren’t serving up what you need, these around-the-clock pharmacies are here for you. And you can make a whole night out of it by stopping at a 24-hour Starbucks on the way home!

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Every 24-hour pharmacy in NYC

1.Duane Reade

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (4)

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (5)

Synonymous with the word “pharmacy” in all five boroughs, Duane Reade is ready to dole out snacks, prescriptions, a plethora of beauty supplies and more at any hour of the day. Expect to see the gleaming lights of Duane Reade shining across Manhattan at any hour, beaconing around-the-clock shoppers.

401 E 86^th St

1498 York Ave

1352 First Ave

1524 Second Ave

1191 Second Ave

852 Second Ave

1550 Third Ave

1111 Third Ave

949 Third Ave

866 Third Ave

711 Third Ave

2.Walgreens

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (6)

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (7)

You may look for them at the corner of happy and healthy, but Duane Reade’s national sibling has a handful of 24-hour pharmacies in NYC. In addition to quickly filled prescriptions, expect to find your typical grocery store goods here at all hours.

1471 Broadway

250 Fifth Ave

145 4^th Ave

33 E 23^rd St

20 Astor Pl

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3.CVS

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (8)

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (9)

Grab a weekly ad and shop the CVS deals at any time of night across the city. The CVS specialty app also helps remind you about medications, and if you do forget to refill until the very last minute, run out to one of these all-night pharmacies.

253 First Ave

1569 First Ave

1369 Second Ave

1622 Third Ave

1294 Lexington Ave

1500 Lexington Ave

1241 Lexington Ave

150 E 42^nd St

630 Lexington Ave

743 Amsterdam Ave

2495 Broadway

540 Amsterdam Ave

1 Columbus Ave

222 E 34^th St

500 W 42^nd St

300 Park Ave S

215 Park Ave S

298 Mulberry St

75 Christopher St

158 Bleecker St

129 Fulton St

5 Penn Plaza

31-01 Ditmars Blvd, Queens

41-8 Queens Blvd, Queens

89-11 Northern Blvd, Queens

61-15 Metropolitan Ave, Queens

3775 E Tremont Ave, Bronx

4.Rite Aid

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (10)

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (11)

While Greenpoint’s former roller rink called Rite Aid isn’t open all night, you can turn any of these 24-hour pharmacies into a disco dance party if you really try hard enough.

81 First Ave

242 Second Ave

1849 Second Ave

1535 Second Ave

2170 Frederick Douglass Blvd

26 Grand Central Terminal

4188 Broadway

2833 Broadway

282 8^th Ave

301 W 50^th St

534 Hudson St

783 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn

75-75 31^st Ave, Queens

45-02 43^rd Ave, Queens

31-01 30^th Ave, Queens

32-87 Steinway St, Queens

21-25 Broadway, Queens

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5.Neergard

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (12)

Find a 24-hour pharmacy in NYC for meds, food and household items (13)

Neighborhood pharmacies are hard to come by these days, but this 24-hour spot hails back to an age when corporations didn’t dominate New York City’s pharmacy scene. Get prescriptions filled and shop for toys, skincare products and more at Neergard. 454 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn (718-768-0600, neergaardpharmacies.com)

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